Telcos

A telephone company, also known as a telco, telephone service provider, or telecommunications operator, is a kind of communications service provider (CSP) (more precisely a telecommunications service provider or TSP) that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many telephone companies were at one time government agencies or privately owned but state-regulated monopolies. The government agencies are often referred to, primarily in Europe, as PTTs (postal, telegraph and telephone services).Telephone companies are common carriers, and in the United States are also called local exchange carriers.

… HBO will make the full episodes of the premiere installments of new comedy series Ballers and The Brink available via Facebook for a limited time. The premium cable network told variety the debut episodes of the two series will not be available via any other video platforms, including YouTube, nor will non-HBO subscribers be able to access…

… the strong framework it already has with its HBO Go portal. It has faced some hiccups during periods of peak demand, like “Game of Thrones” premiere nights, but those should be few and far between as HBO invests more heavily in its paid streaming service, said Shapiro, who oversaw HBO Go’s development at Huge. Telcos, meanwhile, could subsidize cable…